The army is interested in fielding 18 units initially, said Anthony Sebasto, an engineer who helped develop SWORDS at Picatinny Arsenal. Picatinny
officials told JDW that a final decision has not been made as to when the systems might be fielded, but there have been reports in the press that it
could be March or April.

Although the US Department of Defense has experimented with armed robots for some years, this is believed to be the first time it has moved to field
one. "This is just the beginning of what will be a growing initiative," Sebasto said.

If anyone has full access to Janes Defence Weekly I would not mind a copy of the rest of the article

Pretty cool. It might just work out. You know? Plus, it's a robot, so if it gets destroyed, we won't really care because it's not a human, right
(or at least not a robot with emotions, which I'm not even sure exist yet)?

2005 - Two robotics projects in the USA and Korea announced stunning breakthroughs this week. The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
contracted Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to build a computer that can read documents and learn from them, for $1.2 million. Korea's Advanced
Institute of Science and Technology created software to install 14 artificial chromosomes in a robot within three months. The software code is
modelled on human DNA.

2005 - New micro-robots called microbots grow their own muscles from living animals. The microbots are grown on silicon chips, using the
same principles and similar technologies as those used to make integrated circuits. "I can make hundreds of thousands as easily as I can make one,"
says nanotechnologist Carlo Montemagno. Blending biological and mechanical parts with phenomenal precision, microbots are a fully integrated system,
blurring the lines between men and machines.

2000 - "One of the projects DARPA is currently supporting is work by a team at Michigan State University's College of Engineering, who are
developing reconfigurable micro-robots for use in military, intelligence and law enforcement ...."

2005 - "Scientists at the University of California Los Angeles have successfully bonded flesh to silicon to create what they claim is world's
first muscled robot. ..."They have a maximum moving speed of 40 micrometres per second and can work for more than four hours, although not
continuously." "

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